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The Machines That Sparked the Beginning of the Computer Age 139

jjp9999 writes "A war of spies and electromechanical machines that took place beneath the wires during World War II not only played a crucial role in the Allies' victory, but also helped spark the beginning of the computer age. Among the devices was the Enigma, a cipher capable of producing 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible code combinations, and a hulking machine, the Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer, capable of decoding the Enigma."

Comment TPS Reports (Score 2, Funny) 1374

However, the SEI is introducing Team Process Software (TPS), which brings traceability of specific code modules to individual programmers, said Humphrey, a former IBM software engineering executive. Indian software companies and a few U.S. developers, notably Microsoft Corp., are aggressively implementing TPS.

The guys at Microsoft better make sure they put a cover on those TPS reports!

Comment Monster.com (Score 1) 1

There were only 39 hits on the keyword "OpenVMS" at Monster.com for the entire country, compared with 937 for "linux". Oh yeah, and the keyword "butt" got 42 hits...

Comment found you (Score 1) 3

I told you i would read your journal if you started using it....bet you didn't think i would find it so soon now did you :op

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